tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post229524876771156271..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: I too will something make - Robert Bridges makes poemsAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76557557887892888492015-05-20T10:49:48.897-05:002015-05-20T10:49:48.897-05:00These are great comments. Right on point. Bridge...These are great comments. Right on point. Bridges did have a real problem with poetic energy, whatever that is - but I can see that often it ain't there. Thomas Hardy did not have that problem.<br /><br />I left out the best bit of Yeats: "more in the nerves, less in the blood, more birdlike, less human; words often commonplace made unforgettable by some trick of speeding or slowing..." Yeats was a fine reader of his peers.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-20044441269729100372015-05-19T22:53:49.885-05:002015-05-19T22:53:49.885-05:00bridges was a nice guy, noncombative and thoughtfu...bridges was a nice guy, noncombative and thoughtful of others. i wonder if one has to believe in an afterlife to be that way. probably helps. interesting contrast with hardy who was also quiet, but probably not as gemutlich.Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-54658595975905519522015-05-19T16:04:09.233-05:002015-05-19T16:04:09.233-05:00If I'd been Bridges, I'd have burned down ...If I'd been Bridges, I'd have burned down Lionel Johnson's house. Nobody since the start of the 19th century wanted to write poems that would never "outrage fine taste."<br /><br />Although I have to say, the two poems you quote here lack verve, or any sort of energy. These just look like phrases unstitched from other poems. Maybe Johnson should've burned down Bridges' house.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com